Milman, Dean, career, 253, 256, 262, 263, 271-274; dramatist, 253; poet, 254, 255; translator, 256; hymns, 255; historian, 257-270; critic, 252, 256-261, 263-267, 269; learning, 269; style, 268, 269; views on miracles, 258-260; on German criticism, 260-262; on Christianity, 268; on Tractarian movement, 270; on clerical subscription, 271; Mr. Reeve and, 246; Dean Stanley and, 271; friendships, 252, 273; private correspondence, 253; social gifts, 272, 273; characteristics, 252, 253, 257, 265, 266, 268, 269, 271, 272-274; works, 252-270, 272, 273; portrait, 274 Milman, Arthur, 252 Milner, Bishop, 163, 164 Milton, 132 Mohammedanism, rise of, 32, 101 Molyneux, 74 Monasticism, 24 Montesquieu, 132, 136 Montmorin, Mme, de, 139 Moral standard, changes in, 14-19, 266 Murray, 254 Napoleon I., 142-146, 149 Napoleon III., 280, 288 Narbonne, Louis de, 138-141 Necker, Mme., 134, 135, 142 Necker, Monsieur, 133, 138, 140, 144, 146, 149 Necker, Germaine, _see_ Staël, Mme. de Newcastle, Duke of, 45, 189 Newman, Cardinal, 90, 96, 249-251, 269, 270 O'Connell, 164, 165, 171, 174, 189, 192, 193, 286 Old-age pensions, 307, 309, 311-316; proposals for, 300, 309, 310, 313; Royal Commission, 303; Rothschild Committee, 304, 305; Chaplin Committee, 305, 307 Orangemen, 84, 173, 189, 190 Palestine, return of Jews to, 129, 130 Paley, 95, 260 Palmerston, Lord, 46, 178, 206-209, 211, 246, 279-282 Parker, editor of Peel Correspondence, 153, 156, 192 Parnell, C.S., 186 Parnell Commission, 88, 89 Parsons, 73, 84 Pasteur, 121 Pauperism, diminution of, 298-309 Peel, Sir Lawrence, 156 Peel, Sir Robert, education, 154, 155; career, 151, 153-156, 168, 172, 177, 187, 188, 194; abolition of Corn Laws, 152, 153; Irish Secretary, 156, 157, 167, 174-187; relations with O'Connell, 174; correspondence, 153, 173, 175-185, 189, 190, 191, 197-199; Croker and, 177, 178; advocates unsectarian education for Ireland, 185, 190; Catholic Emancipation, 152, 153, 168-174, 187, 189-191, 193-195, 197-199; financial measures, 187, 194, 195; patronage, 178-183, 191, 192; police force organised, 184, 185; Home Secretary, 188-198; parliamentary skill, 152, 153, 157, 181, 191; debating powers, 172, 173; Queen Victoria and, 282, 286; recantations, 152, 153, 187, 193, 194; estimate of his character and abilities, 151-154, 156, 157, 172, 181, 191 Perceval, 155, 156, 159-161, 165, 166 Pitt, William, _see_ Chatham Pliny, quoted, 102 Plunket, 84, 168, 174, 188 Pobedonosteff, 117 Pole, Wellesley, 168 Poor-law relief, improvement in, 316, 317; principles of, 298, 299 Portland, Duke of, 159-161 Portugal, Jews in, 120, 121 Prince Consort, 278-280, 282, 284 Prince Regent, _see_ George IV Prison reform, Carlyle's views on, 114 Pusey, 250 'Quarterly Review,' 256, 257 Rationalism in Europe, author's History of, 103 Redesdale, Lord, 175, 181, 182, 186